In Newcastle, the provision of modern apprenticeships was applauded by inspectors, but A level results in the further education and sixth form college level were less successful.
Geoff Barton, of King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds, said he had seen a drop of about 10% in results despite last week seeing some of the best A-level results in the county.
Some support a more radical solution: offering places only after A-level results are published.
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But teaching was found to be broadly satisfatory and A-level results were in keeping with national trends.
Councillors will receive a report in December outlining final data for the summer 2005 GCSE and A-level results.
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Head master Barnaby Lenon said they repeatedly found that the team's A-level results were very good, often better than expected.
The Ucas admissions service has been publishing updates on the remaining university places, after A-level results were published last Thursday.
The fullest possible publication of AS level results on the 16th will avoid charges of "cover up" or "lack of transparency".
But the gender gap, highlighted in last week's A-level results, continues to widen as girls continue to outperform boys in GCSEs.
The results showed the level of careers advice has been maintained in only 16.5% of the 1, 568 schools covered in the survey.
With A-level results due out later, the Times suggests most universities will offer fewer places through the clearing system than last year.
This results in a level of enthusiasm for education and entrepreneurship that you would be hard pressed to find in the West at this time.
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Previous attempts at introducing a "fairer" admissions system, such as plans for applications to be made after A-level results, have been pushed into the long grass.
The researchers scrutinised the brain scans to see if they could find any patterns that tallied with the protein level results from the lumbar puncture tests.
Now government statisticians have cross referenced GCSE and AS-level results with degree results, looking specifically if top school exam results are accurate predictors of a degree at 2:1 or above.
What results from that level of self-confidence is rarely pretty.
Whether or not Mr Gove gets the chance to implement his ideas after the next election, the ritual of hurrahs and boos over A-level results seems likely to continue.
By 2010, the government promises that the schools exam timetable and university admissions system would be changed to allow pupils to have their full A-level results before applying to university.
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Until now prospective students in Scotland have had to wait until the A Level results came out and then search through the much bigger UK listings for details of possible courses.
One of the obvious results is a level of player wages that almost no other clubs in the world (other than a handful of the best clubs from around the globe) can match.
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This week's AS-level results will see the latest stage in what has been a turbulent first year for the new qualification, which will usually be taken in the first year of sixth form.
Students apply on the basis of predicted grades - and the "adjustment" system was intended to make it fairer by allowing pupils who outperformed their expectations to change their university choices after A-level results.
In recent years, Time Inc. has been a drag on corporate-level results and revenue from the magazine unit hasn't recovered from the recession as advertisers continue to shift money out of print formats and onto digital ones.
In the tables, we are also offering the option of seeing which institutions have performed best in Advanced GNVQs, to reflect the long-standing concern that ranking institutions by A level results automatically disadvantages further education colleges, which tend to have a more vocational, less academic focus.
Christopher Ray, of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, which represents independent school leaders, told BBC News the new system could potentially harm "students who only when they get their AS-level results in Year 12 realise how bright they are, who are perhaps in an underperforming school or college and who suddenly have the self-confidence to aim for the stars".
However, further test results confirmed that the level of DNA was under the reporting threshold.
The shift from complaining to positive, productive dialog is already yielding results at the company level, he said.
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This is used in the BBC tables as a tie-break measure for schools scoring the same results at GCSE-level.
Miss Anwar was a "straight-A" student who was due to pick up her A-Level exam results from King Edward VI School on Thursday, police said.
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